To ask who your favourite Beatle is/was?

[TwiggyTwogs]

I'm just asking as DH was watching A Hard Days Night. I'll always love Johns smile

@giletrouge I'm a huge Beatles fan and from what I've read he's very well endowed in the other department.

My favourite is Ringo. John and George were allegedly both very moody. Ringo was always cheerful.

John was physically abusive to Cynthia. Plus he abandoned Julian to move to the USA.

Paul was allegedly also pretty controlling of Jane Asher and wanted her to give up her acting career to marry him and be a housewife. He was also quite controlling in the studio with the others and wanted everything doing his way.

I think it is fascinating to read the books from the woman's perspective. The PB book is more than just George, it deals a lot with life in the 60s, Beatles, Clapton, etc. I really enjoyed it! (as I did the Cynthia Lennon book)

www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderful-Today-Autobiography-Pattie-Boyd/dp/0755317424?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Her sister Jenny also had a book I'm looking forward to read called "Jennifer Juniper"

Ringo did have an alcohol problem in the 80s and admitted he beat up Barbara Bach while drunk.

George had an affair with Ringo's wife.

So they have all done some shitty things.

@Waxonwaxoff0 Ooohh really? I could imagine that

So they were all twats then

Ringo.

I always loved George, but I saw Paul at Gastonbury in 2004 and thought he was fantastic.

Paul but also George.

None of them. The Beatles were the most overrated band of all time IMO.

though I think just being Paul might have made him a bit odd, too many sycophants around him?

John always. I'm such a huge fan three of my children have beatles inspired names one is named after all four

@Thurmanmurman they were a social phenomenon even if you don't like their music

@Thurmanmurman Hate the word 'overrated.' They deserved all the attention they got They might as well have invented music with what they did.

@Thurmanmurman

None of them. The Beatles were the most overrated band of all time IMO.

It's unfair to try and start a bunfight like that without a counter assertion of who weren't massively overrated, or at least a candidate for the most massively underrated band

At my age I think any discussion of post-rock'n'roll bands really needs to exclude the Beatles as simply beyond compare. For all sorts of reasons. If you could only have one band, The Beatles are the soundtrack to the 60s. End. Of.

@TwiggyTwogs

So they were all twats then

Yep...

My DP is a superfan, I always was a bit meh about them in general, but the more I know about them, the less I like any of them.

I'm so dissapointed. They all seemed lovely!

I think Paul seems like a good sort. What did he do wrong apart from being a bit controlling in the studio?

@TwiggyTwogsnot sure you can be that talented/successful without being a 3-dimensional person with good and bad bits

Ringo

@LadyH846 just heard thru the grapevine he could be a bit brusque but that's it

I had a big crush on John as a teenager (I'm 44 so he was already dead) but yes, he was a twat. Or "a difficult genius" as some would have it. As a teen, it didn't detract from his allure for me, but as an adult woman, I recognise he was a gigantic shit, especially to women.

Got to be ringo! He narrated Thomas the tank engine!

What a shit man indeed

Forgot about him narrating Thomas!!

@stovetopespresso

though I think just being Paul might have made him a bit odd, too many sycophants around him?

Dunno. I don't count myself a Paul fan as such (the Beatles, yes). But anytime I've seen him interviewed he's always come across as having his head screwed on the right way.

He even made James Corden bearable for his carpool karaoke, and was a pretty good egg to play in the pub like that.

Even as the Beatles were innovating, it was Paul that wanted to get back on the road. And who did with Wings as soon as he could - a proper band (with his kids and wife in tow, which is astounding for a 1940s man). They'd just drive along a motorway, find a college, literally rock up and say "Could we play please ?".

Total respect for that.